I suppose some of you are waiting for something. Like a Wesley statement on those shiny new cards that showed up on that Decipher website. Well, I won't give a summary right now, but a review or two won't hurt, although I can only do the cards that are clear from the material I received.
Those of you who are longtime followers know this basic idea: Get a personnel card whose abilities you can decide when you play the card, not when you design your deck. My good old Beaming Clone (COTD #106) was an impersonation of that idea though it didn't help you if you need a classification or skill that was buried deep in your deck.
This one does the job even better in some respects. As I didn't see the pic, I'll assume the card is universal (otherwise the title won't make much sense) and from that I concluded it could be uncommon (Decipher is as yet undecided about rarities, but IMHO it's too good for a common and too useful in multiples to be rare). So we might be able to construct a deck that doesn't wait around for lotsa crew to show up. Take those missions that have requirements that can be done by a single person. Or by one person, plus a second one that has Computer Skill and/or Youth. There are more than six of these missions, so it's possible to play such a deck. Next, throw in about 15 Soong-Type androids. You'll want to draw five of them, to have 2 MEDICAL and one each of SCIENCE, ENGINEER, SECURITY and OFFICER. Yes, that's six, but you'll still need your mission-solver and he'll have the sixth classification.
Now you have an away team that's pretty proof to any hefty Dilemma and with the high attributes won't get into mucho trouble there either. At the worst, you'll run into a Shaka that stops you. (You have a lot of Computer Skill so this will also overcome the obnoxious Impassable Door) And BTW, remember to make most of your Androids (if not all) female to get past Matriarchal Society and be less vulnerable to Love Interests. Good enough? Right. Now draw that Gift Box from beneath the mission, get some more mission-solvers and score 100. Too easy? Maybe. But effective. Now you still want to play with regular personnel? Good. You got that situation: Everything is ready for some action, if only your Security (Science, whatever) guy would show up. Again, a single Android will help you out here. And if you need that 7th classification for your Naiskos? Again.
Somehow this card seems to me as almost too good to be true. Like a 5-color multiland in Magic or something similarly broken. We'll see how it works, but IMHO this card that somewhat got overlooked in the first QC hype is the most degenerate thing we have seen since Red Alert, and it can't even be countered! Wouldn't be too amazed if it got toned down a notch until the release but as it stands, it's the first ever clear "10" from me for any personnel card.
- Not really a combo, but true: Soong-Type Android plus that card I'd right now want from deep in my draw deck.
Wesley's rating: 10.0 Cole's rating: 9.0 Nanite's rating: 10.0 Nouwa's rating: 9.975 Q's rating: 8.5 Tony's rating: 9.0 ---------------------- AVERAGE RATING: 9.1
Not too many ratings yet, and no surprise, Q's was the lowest on the group. Maybe they actually underrated the flexibility power of the card a bit.
Please direct all email concerning card of the day to: crusher@kiss.de
Visit the Web Page!
http://www.worldonline.nl/~ldp/COTD.html
(for best indexing - all cards crosslinked)
With all back issues from #1 up to today !
Wesley Crusher, the new STCCG Lord
"A couple of lightyears can't keep good friends apart"